Category: writing routine
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How to Find the Perfect Writing Routine
I got a little secret for you. Here, come closer. THERE IS NO PERFECT WRITING ROUTINE. There. I said it. It’s easy to become the writer who is constantly searching for the perfect writing routine/method. They bundle their belongings on a stick and go out searching, searching, and searching, like they are looking for El…
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Should You Treat Writing like Work?
Should you treat writing like work? First, there are a few questions you need to answer: Do you want be published? Do you want to make a career out of writing? Is this your calling? If you have answered yes to any of those questions (or all three), then yes, you should treat writing like…
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“Should You Read When You are Writing?”
“Should you read when you are writing?” This is a common writer question. Will reading a book influence your writing and hence forth ruin it? Will you automatically start plagiarizing? WILL THE WORLD END AS WE KNOW IT??? I’m not here today to talk about principles, about the dangers of plagiarizing, or the effect outside…
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It’s Hard to Take a Vacation When You’re a Writer
The problem with being a writer (and there are many) is that even if you are writing full time, it really never is a 9-5. Because even if you quit at 5, sit down on your couch, and turn on your favorite show, there is something looking over your shoulder, a dark cloud looming over…
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How to Stay Alive as a Writer
You are a writer. You read novels and books on writing craft. You spend hours practicing writing and editing. You go to conferences and writing workshops. Well, that’s great. But that is keeping the writer alive. It’s not keeping you alive. Yes, we are actually human beings after all. While I am no health professional,…
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Should You Write Ideas Down? Or Trust to Remember the Good Ones?
I HAVEN’T POSTED IN TWO WEEKS I’M SO SORRY PEOPLE. First my schedule was frantically full, then I got sick/allergies/an alien might have invaded my body. I’m back, and with stuff to say. I heard a writer once say: “I don’t write ideas down. If I forget them, I guess they weren’t that good.” …
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Rewriting Old Stories
Lately I’ve been revisiting some old stories ideas…. For Nanowrimo (2017) I picked up a very, very, very, very old piece that was around before the asteroid hit and killed all the dinos (meaning when I was 14). That was a fantasy novel called Oh, Wonder Why the Sun Fell. I then picked up Raptor…
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How do I Make Time to Write??
“How do I make time to write?” a common question. And it has a very simple answer. YOU MAKE THE TIME. No really. That is what it all ultimately boils down to. If you want to write, then you have to make time to do it. But fine here are some tips on how to do…
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Stages of Writing a 2nd Draft (as told by gifs)
So. You have finished your first draft. HIP HIP HORRAY!! Good for you! *pat on back* So you have your beautiful, gleaming – confusing, junk filled, messy, first draft. Time to fix it and write the 2nd draft. And now I present to you an illustrated guide to the stages of writing your 2nd draft,…
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Should You Set a Daily Word Count Goal?
We like to get stuff done. Nothing better than checking something off a list, shutting a computer with everything finished, or collapsing on the couch after getting all that stuff you needed to get done, done. Writers like to know that they are finished for the day. The edits that needed to be made were…
Bernadette Benda 